Unpopular Opinions Regarding the Show

[RulesofRarity 489]

On 29/03/2018 at 7:34 PM, BronyNumber42licious said:

I feel like at this point, liking the show is an unpopular opinion.

I’d say it’s been like this for years outside of the fandom because Bronies have gotten a bad reputation on the internet which has put some people off the show. 

[Thrond 3,263]

• Those Equestria Girls shorts really are terrific, and I wish they weren't limited exclusives on the Discovery Family app so more people could view them legitimately. Some of the show's best songs are in there. 

[The Recherche 29,967]

Please note that most of these opinions are based on the 20 or so episodes I've seen from the series; I have only seen most of Season 1 so far. With that said, let's dive in! 

• Fluttershy is kinda cute at best, outright obnoxious at worst.
• I don't have a problem with the into. At all. I'l even go as far to say that I actually enjoy it!
• "Feeling Pinkie Keen" is one of my least favorite episodes so far.

That's all I have for now! I'll post again when I develop some more!

Edited April 2, 2018 by Recherche

[FizzyGreen 909]

I love Starlight Glimmer and can look past her crazy 180° turn she did after the S5 finale.

[The MegaBrony 219]

The villains all suck.

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On 3/29/2018 at 1:34 PM, pyrotermania said:

I used to think that MLP was a bad show. Because of opinions that my friends used to keep telling me. But I decided to watch it and became a brony then I started watching more animations and stuff about MLP and here we are now.

Same here: @pyrotermania. 

 

-I really don't like Pinkie Pie.

 

[cmarston1 5,959]

Fame and Misfortune is one of the funniest episodes in the entire show.

Also,  Fame and Misfortune>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Slice of Life

 

Edited April 3, 2018 by cmarston1

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The Season 7 finale sucks.

[BlueStreak98 828]

1 hour ago, The_Dank_Brony said:

The Season 7 finale sucks.

Honestly, I kind of agree. I didn't like bringing back all the legends of history and piling them together in one episode. It's hard to do time travel and make it not come off weird. Bill and Ted did it well, but Twily isn't Keanu Reeves. The episode felt like a fanfic I wouldn't have read.

[Mystic Brush 103]

Anything related to EG is crap except Rainbow Rocks

I loved "over-assertive" Fluttershy hehehe

Even though Rainbow had a lot of development, i still hate her due to the fact that she does terrible things in the current seasons, such as cruel pranks & lying to friends.

I don't like the cmc's cutie marks.

Celestia being underpowered but, daybreaker being op. Doesn't make sense to me...

[NathanW200 306]

On 6/20/2013 at 4:45 PM, repsol rave said:

- i hate pinkie pie with all my heart

- i loved how the changelings almost killed celestia

- i prefer applejack over fluttershy

That's sad to hear I love Pinkie Pie with all my heart If you hate Pinkie Pie you're one of the few because very little people hate Pinkie Pie 

The only Thing I don't like about the show is that none of the mane 6 are getting boyfriends When is Pinkie Pie Fluttershy Rarity Applejack Rainbow Dash or Twilight going to get their Stallion friend 

this is the only thing I dislike about the show everything else is fine but I come up with all sorts of Ideas in my head that could improve the show but Hasbro would never take my ideas even if I told them in person

Edited April 4, 2018 by NathanW200

[bluseymoe 258]

2 hours ago, Mystic Brush said:

Anything related to EG is crap except Rainbow Rocks

I loved "over-assertive" Fluttershy hehehe

Even though Rainbow had a lot of development, i still hate her due to the fact that she does terrible things in the current seasons, such as cruel pranks & lying to friends.

I don't like the cmc's cutie marks.

Celestia being underpowered but, daybreaker being op. Doesn't make sense to me...

Yeah, but she lies to her friends to protect their feelings. Would you rather her be brutally honest to the point of hurting them? Considering how Pinkie tends to overreact to even the smallest issues, can you really blame Dash for wanting to avoid Pinkie having another mental breakdown over her not liking pie? Maud knew that too, which is why she lied to Pinkie about her parties for so long. 

[Mystic Brush 103]

9 minutes ago, bluseymoe said:

Yeah, but she lies to her friends to protect their feelings. Would you rather her be brutally honest to the point of hurting them? Considering how Pinkie tends to overreact to even the smallest issues, can you really blame Dash for wanting to avoid Pinkie having another mental breakdown over her not liking pie? Maud knew that too, which is why she lied to Pinkie about her parties for so long. 

Sometimes the truth hurts. Like, if i made someone a drawing, i would prefer them to be honest with me.Even if they didn't like it. If i gave my opinion as nice as possible and, yet they overreact like i just insulted their ancestors , that's really on them. I really wouldnt want someone to waste all of those ingredients  & their time, just so i could throw it away without taking a single bite.

Maybe i would protect someones feelings if said person was a child. Since children are incapable of handling stuff well.

But thats just me

[SharpWit 2,611]

Two most recent negative opinions in regards to the show, I've no idea how unpopular they are.

The appearance of Hollow Shades in the season 7 finale was disappointing. My expectations were too high since it was regarded as the unofficial home for Equestrian Batponies by many fans, myself included, and instead of a town shrouded in darkness from abundant vegetation, we get a rocky landscape with little to no plant life that's been long abandoned. Wasted potential.

My next one concerns season 8 episode 3. With it still being relatively recent, only having seen the episode for the first time hours ago, I felt hiding it would be appropriate.

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I don't like Maud Pie's boyfriend, Mud Briar. They do have similarities, but here's the thing. Maud Pie is socially awkward, uses her words sparingly, can come off as weird, but for the most part she's courteous of how others feel. Mud Briar however, is an ass. He unnecessarily corrects your word choice at every opportunity, and says things without thinking how it'll make others feel. And that whole stick abuse bit? Are you kidding me!? You can't handle a stick being used to bludgeon a paper Mache candy holder, meanwhile your marefriend has a pet rock, while also including rocks as a staple of her diet. It's ridiculous. Pinkie pie did over react as she tends to, but her anger was well founded.

 

[Kadeda 178]

On 4/4/2018 at 2:20 AM, SharpWit said:

Two most recent negative opinions in regards to the show, I've no idea how unpopular they are.

The appearance of Hollow Shades in the season 7 finale was disappointing. My expectations were too high since it was regarded as the unofficial home for Equestrian Batponies by many fans, myself included, and instead of a town shrouded in darkness from abundant vegetation, we get a rocky landscape with little to no plant life that's been long abandoned. Wasted potential.

My next one concerns season 8 episode 3. With it still being relatively recent, only having seen the episode for the first time hours ago, I felt hiding it would be appropriate.

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I don't like Maud Pie's boyfriend, Mud Briar. They do have similarities, but here's the thing. Maud Pie is socially awkward, uses her words sparingly, can come off as weird, but for the most part she's courteous of how others feel. Mud Briar however, is an ass. He unnecessarily corrects your word choice at every opportunity, and says things without thinking how it'll make others feel. And that whole stick abuse bit? Are you kidding me!? You can't handle a stick being used to bludgeon a paper Mache candy holder, meanwhile your marefriend has a pet rock, while also including rocks as a staple of her diet. It's ridiculous. Pinkie pie did over react as she tends to, but her anger was well founded.

 

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It's unpopular if you do like Mud Briar. Personally, I do. He's just like Maud... You have to pay attention to see how nice he is. 

 

[Phill 1,287]

I'm not a huge fan of most of the episodes that focus on Pinkie. Episodes that focus on her can sometimes get too annoying for me, and I think Pinkie is funnier in small doses. 

 

[SharpWit 2,611]

5 hours ago, Kadeda said:

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It's unpopular if you do like Mud Briar. Personally, I do. He's just like Maud... You have to pay attention to see how nice he is. 

 

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I wasn't sure what the popular opinion of him would be so recent after the episode. I saw Dr.Wolf's review of the episode with Lightning and Sweetie and I think a majority of the fandom agrees with what he says considering he's one of the most popular MLP analysts. They described him as thinking he'll be endearing to the fandom, but were slightly concerned with the introduction to another character when we just had like 8 in the last one. I also saw a poll on Equestria daily about people's views of him and it was a very close with just under a third of the answers each going to liking him, disliking him, and not caring either way. Mud Briar also reminded me a bit of Sheldon from Big Bang Theory, so I wondered if others would see a similarity there and automatically like him for it. Only time will tell. 

 

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On 4/3/2018 at 7:59 PM, Mystic Brush said:

I loved "over-assertive" Fluttershy hehehe

That one isn't all that unpopular, far as I've seen.

On 4/3/2018 at 7:59 PM, Mystic Brush said:

Even though Rainbow had a lot of development, i still hate her due to the fact that she does terrible things in the current seasons, such as cruel pranks & lying to friends.

Cruel pranks - No excuse on that one. Speaking as a Rainbow fan, I hated how she was characterized in that episode, too.

Lying to friends - That's not a terrible thing to do. A white lie is something people do normally, in normal interactions, all the time. Your friends have likely done it at least once, even if they won't tell you. In fact, it says a lot that Pinkie Pie's being happy means so much to her that she'd be willing to find creative ways to get rid of pies. Not to mention, if Pinkie overreacted so much just to thinking her friends were avoiding her without any proof of it, how do you think she would react if she found out that someone doesn't like her pies? (Sure, she was more upset about the lie than that in the episode, but her previous behavior I could see her leaning either way.) No, the real problem in that episode was that she fed the pies to Tank, even while knowing they were a health hazard to him. What was up with that? It seemed uncharacteristically neglectful of her, especially on the heels of Tanks for the Memories.

I doubt I'm going to change your mind with this, but while we're talking about Secrets & Pies, you should pay attention to what Rainbow said when she was talking about how she was making a mistake. The first thing she suggests isn't to break her heart and tell her the truth. It's to suck it up and eat the pie anyway. It speaks a lot to Rainbow that she'd be willing to put up with something that she considers unpleasant just to make someone else happy.

[Megas 27,564]

5 hours ago, Scootaloved said:

Cruel pranks - No excuse on that one. Speaking as a Rainbow fan, I hated how she was characterized in that episode, too.

Honestly unfair to judge her from that considering the damn episode felt like it deliberately bastardized her character for the sake of its stupid zombies 

Edited April 6, 2018 by Alvin Yakitori

[cmarston1 5,959]

Even though people have claimed that Rainbow was annoying or obnoxious, or even flanderized in Rainbow Rocks, I never thought she was all that bad there.

 

Edited April 6, 2018 by cmarston1

[Guest]

The name Muffins has a lot more pleasant vibe to it than Derpy. I will never understand why people hate the new name so much.

[CypherHoof 26,482]

1 hour ago, Jaspers said:

The name Muffins has a lot more pleasant vibe to it than Derpy. I will never understand why people hate the new name so much.

  It *is* a nicer name, and that is the point. if it had been her original name, then ok, but that it was retconned in to please a politically correct minority doesn't sit well.

  Our cross-eyed mare clearly has "issues" (but it's not like half of ponyville, and ALL of the mane 6 don't) but ponyville embraces that; Derpy doesn't have fun made of her, or things thrown at her because she is "different" - she is an accepted and valued part of the community, That is very much part of how Ponyville differs from much of equestria - compare (for example) Scoots' flight disfunction with the abuse Fluttershy got as a filly (despite the fact her wingpower, while low for a pegasus, is good enough in practice) with the only exception being the known-mean Diamond Tiara (who is now redeemed, of course)

  Derpy's story is one of acceptance and inclusion; the conflict between what is said and what is done is reversed here, and that's a good thing - Derpy's Derpiness is acknowledged and she is shown as being competent at her day job (in contrast to the mailpony who misdelivers to Fluttershy) in spite of her limitations.  She is part of the herd, and she is loved, and that is all that matters.

[Cwanky 17,567]

I don't care for Pinkie Pie's over the top in your face attitude. She has good intentions and she's a sweet and good person, but her methods are off. 

Interestingly enough several of the characters Pinkie doesn't get along with are those that are less popular in the fandom and I like, namely Cranky and Maud. 

[CypherHoof 26,482]

3 minutes ago, Cwanky said:

I don't care for Pinkie Pie's over the top in your face attitude. She has good intentions and she's a sweet and good person, but her methods are off. 

Interestingly enough several of the characters Pinkie doesn't get along with are those that are less popular in the fandom and I like, namely Cranky and Maud. 

Understandable; many bronies have said that Pinkie in S1 was just irritating, and they had to learn to like (if not love) her in later seasons. I think part of that is that she has rather rigid opinions on what is "fun" and tries to shoehorn those into other pony lives; Secrets and Pies and of course pretty much ANY Maud episode are clearly exploring this side of her though, so perhaps she CAN learn...

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14 minutes ago, CoffeeHoof said:

She is part of the herd, and she is loved, and that is all that matters.

That's all true and a generally good post.  My issue with the name Derpy is just that it kind of has the same kind of vibe to it as calling a person with glasses "four-eyes" for example. Or a person with a lisp "lispy". It probably makes no sense but that's just my two cents on it.